University of Wisconsin Stout - Tower Yearbook (Menomonie, WI)

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Break On Through: 1988 As we Break on through into a new year I hope we all remember the past. Since 1909, the Tower yearbook has been an outstanding piece of the Stout State University ' s and UW-Stout ' s tradition. The Tower yearbook has upheld an accurate record of history, even through the years of the depres- sion. World War I, World War II, the Korean War and through the Vietnam conflict. The Tower has been a recordkeep- ing publication of changes in society, both national and local, university and non-university. The Tower yearbook has been the only ongoing publication, aside from the Stoutonia, that is both a pictorial and editorial re- cordkeeping production. The Tower has been the founda- tion that the tradition of UW- Stout has built on for the past ninty-seven years. Due to lack of support, lead- ership, and the proper use of advancements in technology, the Tower yearbook was on the downfall since the early 1980 ' s. Due to this downfall, the re- cordkeeping tradition was stopped. The Stout Student As- sociation (SSA) cut off funding for the Tower in 1987. The re- cordkeeping tradition appeared to be in dire jeopardy as the Tower would no longer be available for the use of the UW- Stout students, alumni, admin- istration, and faculty. In 1988 the new Tower staff started their first book. They will al- ways remember the year as one finally past. They have pushed long hard hours together. The staff has completed an excellent piece of history. Not just a book, but a piece of each of us and a piece of tradition. They have completed another year of the recordkeeping publication. The clubs, organizations, and the people we lived with are in this year ' s Tower. We have tried to get everbodys face in the book, but as you may know, it is impossible. In the years to come the Tower will have many new faces and plenty of changes to go with those faces. This book is the beginning for a young, striving, hopefully or- ganized Tower staff. I just hope you treasure this Tower as much as we do.

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9o In the fall of 1987, when I took over as the Editor-in- Chief of the Tower Yearbook it had nothing. It had no book, no staff and no office. By January of 1988 I, with the help of a couple friendly ad- ministrators, had situated myself into an office with supplies and a shaky staff, Todd Paavola was my Stu- dent Advisor. Todd is partial- ly responsible for getting the Tower back on it ' s feet. I would like to thank Todd Paavola personally for get- ting myself involved. By Feb- ruary of 1988 I had signed a printing contract with Jos- tens Publishing Co. At this time we were well into our book of 1988. Due to the late signing of the contract, many parts of the early year were missed in this publication. In September 1988 I had en- larged the Tower staff to 13 members. It is now late De- cember and I have completed my first yearbook as Editor- in-Chief of the Tower. I am very glad to say that I have revived the Tower Yearbook. I hope that you judge this yearbook not on its contents but on the progress that we have made in the last two years. Finally, a special thanks to everyone who helped me get things started . ?S. Don Anybody h«K remember Vcr Lynn?

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Robert S. Swanson, a native of Superior, WI, was born October 3, 1924. He attended Superior Central High School where he ranked first out of a class of 410. He first came to Stout as a student in 1942, but his studies were interrupted by World War II. Following duty as a staff sergeant in an anti- tank company in Europe, he returned to Stout in 1946. In his junior and senior years, he taught classes in woodworking and was appointed to a half-time position of the faculty when he entered graduate school. This changed to a full time posi- tion after he received his masters degree in 1950. Five years later he was awarded a doctorate in education from the Uni- versity of Minnesota. In the following years, he served as chair of the Woodworking Department, Assistant Dean, and later Dean of the School of Applied Science and Technology, Director of the Summer Session and in 1966 he was appointed Dean of the Graduate College. It was under his leadership that the enrollment in the Graduate College tripled and the num- ber of degree programs offered doubled. In September, 1972, he was appointed Chancellor of Stout. In addition to his activities as a teacher, Swanson has been active in other areas of education as well. He has had a text- book published on Plastic Technology and has had numer- ous articles published in the areas of Education and Technol- ogy. In 1967 he was named man of the year by the American Council of Industrial Arts Teacher Educators and was made an honorary member of the National Association of Teach- er Educators in 1970. Swanson has also served as a member of the Menomonie Board of Education for ten years. In 1958, he was the winner of an award for research by the American Technical Society for his study of The Operational Defini- tion and Measurement of Educational Philosophy. As his official day of retirement, Swanson chose 80 years to the day that Senator Stout transformed the Stout Manual Training School into the Stout Institute. Robert S. Swanson was Chancellor for fifteen years. He saw the greatest growth in both student population and physical facilities in Stout ' s history. Hence, we are proud to dedicate Volume 79 of the Tower Yearbook to former Chancellor, Robert S. Swanson. 6